Word: caninha
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Open a bar in your house. Be your only customer. Give your wife 1,440 cruzeiros [$7.57] to buy a case of 24 bottles of caninha Garcas [raw-sugar-cane alcohol]. Buy a bottle a day at 5 cr. (3?) a shot from your wife. If you live another ten years and then drop dead, your widow will have 115,200 cr. [$606.31] in the bank-enough to raise the kids, pay off the mortgage, marry a good man and forget that she ever knew a drunken bum like...
...lanky Texan, or to the Brazilian territory of Rondonia (pop. 65,000) where he lives. For Choate, it began the payoff of a $125,000 gamble to tame 500,000 acres of jungle. To Rondonia it signalled the start of local industry, a supply of jobs as well as caninha. The territorial government willingly blessed the venture with a five-year tax grace...
...longer would the natives have to send money for caninha out of the territory to Rio de Janeiro from which it took five months by river to reach Pôrto Velho. More important, the ships can carry badly needed beans and flour instead...
...years ago. It's the most exciting place on earth." With the success of his plantation assured, Choate is building a brick house so that his family can join him. But no matter what his ad advises, he will not set his wife up in business selling him caninha: he cannot stand the stuff...
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